# Johnson Chesnut Whittaker

Overturned · 1995

Johnson Chesnut Whittaker (August 23, 1858 – January 14, 1931) was one of the first black men to win an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point. When at the academy, he was brutally assaulted and then expelled after being falsely accused and convicted of faking the incident. Over sixty years after his death, his name was formally cleared when he was posthumously commissioned by President Bill…

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=1666017
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/johnson-chesnut-whittaker-w1666017

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